DevOps engineer in AI infrastructure

Encord; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

4 days in-person culture

Flexible PTO

Learning & development budget

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Travel opportunities across US, London

Bi-annual offsites

Job summary

Encord is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our platform engineering team in New York. You have 5+ years of hands‑on DevOps experience and will own deployment pipelines, review infrastructure changes, and champion best practices across the engineering group.

You will design and run cloud infrastructure on GCP and AWS, manage Kubernetes at scale, and drive automation, observability, and incident response. Expect travel across the U.S., London, and Europe.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of hands-on DevOps, platform engineering, or SRE experience in a production environment.
• Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation at scale.
• Proven experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi) and configuration management.
• Strong fundamentals in designing, building, and maintaining resilient distributed and/or high performance systems.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerised workloads in cloud environments (GCP and/or AWS).
• Solid understanding of networking, operating systems, and database technologies.
• Experience with observability fundamentals metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.

Responsibilities

• Own and continuously improve deployment pipelines; partner with developers to review infra changes and champion DevOps practices.
• Design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure on GCP and AWS; manage Kubernetes clusters at scale with IaC.
• Boost developer productivity by building automation and internal tooling across the engineering group.
• Profile and optimise services handling large-scale data pipelines; perform capacity planning for storage and compute.
• Work with squads to establish performance benchmarks and expectations.
• Define and own SLIs/SLOs/SLAs; build alerting, runbooks, and blameless postmortems.
• Instrument services with tracing, logging, and metrics; ensure observability before production.

Skills

DevOps

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Terraform

Pulumi

Cloud platforms

Observability

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

GCP

AWS

Job description

Описание:

Encord is the universal data layer for AI that helps 300+ AI teams train and run models on the right data. Our platform indexes, curates, annotates, and evaluates data across the full AI lifecycle, from development through production. We're an ambitious team of 100+ working at the frontier of AI. We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of experience to join our growing platform engineering team in New York.

Задачи:

• Own and continuously improve deployment pipelines; partner closely with developers to review infrastructure changes, streamline release processes, and champion DevOps best practices across the engineering group.
• Design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure on GCP and AWS; manage Kubernetes clusters, networking, and storage at petabyte scale, with infrastructure-as-code as the default.
• Drive developer productivity by building, guiding, and reviewing automation and internal tooling efforts across the engineering group; eliminate manual toil wherever it exists.
• Profile and optimise services handling large-scale data pipelines; perform capacity planning for storage and compute-intensive workloads.
• Work with squads to establish performance benchmarks and expectations.
• Define and own SLIs/SLOs/SLAs for critical services; build alerting, runbooks, and incident response processes; lead postmortems with a blameless culture.
• Instrument services with distributed tracing, logging, and metrics (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, GCP Dashboards or similar); build infrastructure, define best practices, and work with each squad to ensure every service is observable before it goes to production.

Требования:

• 4+ years of hands-on DevOps, platform engineering, or SRE experience in a production environment.
• Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation at scale.
• Proven experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi) and configuration management.
• Strong fundamentals in designing, building, and maintaining resilient distributed and/or high performance systems.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerised workloads in cloud environments (GCP and/or AWS).
• Solid understanding of networking, operating systems, and database technologies.
• Experience with observability fundamentals metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.

Условия:

• Competitive salary, commission, and meaningful equity in a high-growth start-up
• Clear, accelerated growth opportunities as the company scales rapidly
• Strong in-person culture: 4 days/week
• Flexible PTO to fully recharge
• Annual learning & development budget
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
• Frequent travel opportunities across the U.S., London, and Europe
• Bi-annual company offsites, twice-weekly team lunches, and monthly socials
• Compensation Range: $180K - $230K